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Duluth flooding: hypothesis

politics as usual

Submitted by syntaxfactory on June 21, 2012 - 5:00am

Duluth, MN flooded this week under 9" of rain.

1. Duluth has, for at least ten if not 20 years, radically underinvested in infrastructure. In a town of 80,000, MSA of about 150,000, we were repairing single-digit lengths of roads in town annually, paid for not by taxes but by a shared revenue agreement with a local casino.

2. Historic flood levels result in collapsing streets all across town --sinkholes, potholes, washouts.

3. Federal and state moneys will be spent repairing these roads.

On Avoiding Euphoria

politics as usual

Submitted by Jim Aune on October 8, 2008 - 1:55pm

A hot news release from the ACLU, following a FOIA request: Guantanamo-style procedures were used by the Bush Administration on US soil as well. In a civilized country, this would become a top news story immediately (and I must point out yet again that it was career military officers who were most opposed to the Bush torture practices), but it will not.